"Ten dyke marches all over L.A.": a conversation with Judy Ornelas Sisneros

"Ten dyke marches over L.A." captures highlights from an interview with the Los Angeles queer activist and photographer, Judy Ornelas Sisneros. Originally from Bakersfield, California, Sisneros grew up in a racially mixed working-class neighborhood; she made Los Angeles her permanent home in the late 1980s. Her political education began through the newspapers her family shared at the dining table. Sisneros developed an early love of photojournalism which she pursued formally in her education and in the punk practice of Do-It-Yourself. Persistent, creative, and dedicated to her subjects, Sisneros has honed her own unique aesthetics and politics in documenting music scenes, political events, communities, and social spaces that show the dynamic diversity of Los Angeles. As a co-founder of Dyke March L.A., the title refers to Sisneros's vision of the plentitude and possibility for queer L.A.